About 2,000 GWCL
workers to go home
Educational Units
to manage and supervise institutions
Parents urged to
register births
About 50% of sachet
water is impure
Presenting the Committee's
report to the Minister, Professor Dominic Kweku Fobih at his office in
"Notice on the sale of the
forms should have been made available to the trade associations instead of
having only one purchase centre, which was
Dr Oteng-Amoako
did not make the recommendations of the report public. The Minister said the
sale of applications should be broadened. He said some of the irregularities
the Committee found were that timber mills were located in the heart of
plantations thus motivating the illegal chainsaw operator to carry out the
function at odd times to feed the mills.
He said certain enticement from
exporters also encouraged illegal felling of trees. There was also poor
co-ordination between state agencies such as the
Prof. Fobih
thanked the Committee for finishing its work on schedule and pledged to study
the report with its 25 recommendation after which he would make his remarks.
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The Ministers would examine the
report of the meeting of experts of the committee comprising
She said a number of grey areas
and discrepancies had been discovered in the Community Texts, which threatened
to hinder the attainment of the objectives of ECOWAS economic integration.
Dr Diop
said if the ECOWAS institutions were to perform optimally and to play the
allotted role in the integration process, then the Legal Texts governing them
must be harmonised.
She said a critical review of
the Community Texts was further necessitated by the slow pace of
implementation, by the Member States of the legal instruments of the Community
which included the ECOWAS revised Treaty, the protocols and the conventions.
Dr Diop
explained that the job of the experts was to identify the problem areas,
examine them and make recommendations for their resolutions to turn them into
modern legal instruments capable of contributing effectively to the integration
process.
The ECOWAS Ministers would be
called upon to examine and review the recommendations of the experts that would
create an enabling legal environment to enhance the performance of ECOWAS
institutions.
Dr Diop
said in response to the challenges of economic integration, ECOWAS had created
new institutions that included the ECOWAS Court of Justice, ECOWAS Parliament, The
West African Monetary Institute (WAMI) and the West African Health Organisation
(WAHO).
She said the transformation of
the former ECOWAS Fund had also necessitated the creation of three new
institutions, namely the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) and
its two subsidiaries, the ECOWAS Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the
ECOWAS Regional Investment Bank (ERIB).
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He said paragraph eight of the
agreement made it implicit that the stakeholders would dialogue to seek within
30 days a comprehensive peace agreement that included a transitional government
in
Ugoh was speaking to the Ghana News
Agency (GNA) in
"Read paragraph eight of
the agreement; it is clear," he said. The Liberian Minister of Defence,
Daniel Chea, on Wednesday signed the six-page
agreement on behalf of his government. The agreement which the two rebel
groups, Liberians United For Reconciliation and
Democracy (LURD) and Movement For Democracy In Liberia (MODELS), also signed,
was hammered out after nearly two weeks of closed-door consultations under the
auspices of the ECOWAS Mediation Team.
The agreement, under which a
ceasefire went into effect after
Ugoh said an ECOWAS Verification
Team would be in
The West African country has
been plagued with more than 12 years of armed conflict forcing over 500,000
citizens to live as refugees in the est
Africa Sub-Region and other parts of the world.
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Koforidua (Eastern Region)
He said the situation was due to
the over-reliance of the assemblies on the District Assembly Common Fund, which
had negatively affected revenue mobilization.
Dr Osafo-Mensah
made these observations in a speech read on his behalf at the inauguration of
the Eastern Region Presiding Members' Association at Koforidua.
He called on the Presiding Members to put in place adequate measures to
facilitate revenue generation to enable the assemblies to undertake more
development projects to improve the people's standards of living.
Dr Osafo-Mensah
also appealed to the Presiding Members to ensure that monthly audit reports and
trail balances were made available to enable the assemblies to effectively
check corruption and misapplication of funds.
He asked district assemblies in
the region to choose economic activities in which they had comparative cost
advantage for the implementation of the Special Presidential Initiatives to
create employment for the youth thereby preventing them from drifting to the
urban centres for jobs.
Dr Osafo-Mensah
called for the privatisation of waste collection in the districts and said
people would be ready to pay for such services if they were convinced that the
monies would be spent on the improvement of their lives.
He said: "
We should contribute to our development because the days when we had
everything free of charge must be considered to be over." Nana Kwesi Adjei Boateng,
the New Juaben Municipal Chief Executive, urged the
Presiding Members to come out with strategies for poverty alleviation in their
respective areas in conformity with government development policies.
The 15-member association had
Ms. Beatrice B. Boateng, Presiding Member of New Juaben Municipal Assembly as chairman, Yaw Amoako-Atta, Presiding Member of East Akim
District as Vice-chairman and Tete Quao, Presiding Member of Yilo-Krobo
District Assembly as Secretary.
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About 2,000
GWCL workers to go home
The number of workers to be
affected represents about 50 per cent of the company's work force of 4,593 and
the company's current debt stands at about ¢130bn.
Cobbie Kessie
Jnr, Deputy Managing Director, Finance and
Administration, who announced this on Wednesday, said the number of workers
currently on the company's pay roll was virtually redundant and it would make
economic sense to retrench them as soon as possible to avoid incurring more
debt.
He was speaking when Alhaji Mustapha Ali, Minister of Works and Housing made a
familiarization tour to interact with the workers of the company on Wednesday. Kessie Jnr said: "We are
virtually throwing money away because we are catering for over 2000 employees
who are doing absolutely nothing, besides we are paying a daily tax of ¢55m
which keeps on swelling the debt."
He said the company would
require about 18 million dollars as severance payments to carry out the
retrenchment exercise.
Kessie Jnr
said another way the company could improve on the bad financial situation was
for it to introduce the use of the prepaid metering system, which proved very
successful on a pilot basis in Tema.
Samuel Gerald Odartey Lamptey, Managing
Director of GWCL said on the average the company spent over ¢25bn a month to
defray debts and other expenses. He said the company owed the Electricity
Company of Ghana (ECG) close to ¢110bn and ¢12.2bn was being paid a month to
defray the debt.
Lamptey said a loan repayment of 1.2
million pounds to the Social Security Bank and the Barclays Bank had through
negotiations been converted into a ¢17.2bn with a monthly instalment payment of
¢1.0bn and the final amortization, would end in March 2005.
He said the loan was used to
construct 13 glass fibre reinforced plastic water reservoirs in the Accra-Tema Metropolis.
Alhaji Mustapha Ali said it was about
time the company re-positioned itself properly because its role was gradually
being hyped away.
He asked the company to use a
collaborative effort to settle its debt, and requested for information and
suggestions on the debt situation for action. Alhaji
Ali said government had come closer to taking a decision on the Private Sector
Participation (PSP) in respect with the company and urged the company workers
to exercise restraint.
He said the government wanted to
broaden the debate on the matter by getting all groups such as civil society
organizations and pressure groups involved to arrive
at a consensus. Alhaji Ali asked the company to
reconsider the use of treated water for washing vehicles adding that the
company should provide alternative source of water for them.
Later the Minister, his Deputy
Dr Brinpong Yaboah, the
GWCL Managing Director and officials of the Ministry and the water company
inspected some facilities at the Kpone Dam in the Dangbe West District.
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Educational
Units to manage and supervise institutions
Koforidua (Eastern Region) 19 June 2003 - The Ministry of Education has approved a long standing demand by the Educational Units for the right to manage and supervise educational institutions established and developed by their respective religious bodies in partnership with government.
The approval, which was effected
since October 1999, based on the recommendations of the Ghana Education Service
(GES) Council was, however, communicated to the Units only recently through a
circular dated on 21 May this year, signed by the Director General of the GES,
Rev. Ama Afo Blay.
This was announced by the
Greater Accra Regional Manager of the Catholic Education Unit, Mrs Iris Danquah-Asamoah, when delivering a paper on "The
Church and our Catholic schools in its evangelising mission as a family of
God", at the second session of the First Diocesan Synod of the Catholic
Diocese of Koforidua on Monday.
The recommendations, which were
also endorsed by the President's Committee on Review of Education in Ghana,
allowed the Regional Managers of the Units privileges, including the
responsibility to appoint heads, post, transfer and discipline their teachers
in accordance with the laid down GES regulations.
The Regional Managers are to
recommend their teachers for promotion and there should be no discrimination
against the Units in the distribution of equipment, textbooks, stationery and
funds to their schools.
However, the approval demands
that the Regional Managers are to sign performance agreement with their
respective Regional Directors of Education.
Mrs Danquah-Asamoah,
therefore, called on stakeholders of the Unit's education system involving
students, parents, teachers, managers and bishops, to play their various roles
effectively to enable it recapture the discipline, moral and academic
excellence the Unit's institutions were renowned for.
The Catholic Bishop of Koforidua, Rev Charles Palmer-Buckle, called for the
setting up of a Catholic Education Endowment Fund and a Diocesan Education
Committee to promote quality education delivery in the diocese.
Commenting on the approval in an
interview with the Ghana News Agency, a Regional Manager of an educational
unit, who commended the Ministry of Education for the "long-awaited
decision", described it as "a fitting recognition of the missions'
pioneering role in promoting education in the country since the Castles
education days."
He recalled that under the past
situation, not only postings, transfers and release of teachers under the Units
were done by District Directorate of Education (DDE), but "some of them
even appointed heads for our schools, including those of other faiths, without
recourse to the Regional Managers."
"Some DDEs
discriminated against Unit schools in connection with the sharing of logistics,
including furniture, text books and stationery as well teachers
financial claims to favour only Local Authority schools," he added.
According to him, Regional
Managers were not invited to meetings, seminars and workshops being organised
by the GES "while we were given peanut grants to cater for our office
staff."
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"For all of you
journalists, working in and on
"The well being of people
can be affected by decisions reached on the basis of your reporting. You are
the mirror in which governments of our continent must see themselves and report
fearlessly and honestly. You are the image-makers through which the rest of the
world judges our continent. Report with understanding and honesty we
plead," said Mr. Mandela.
A statement from CNN to the GNA
in
Chris Cramer, President, CNN International Networks said: "We have come a long
way in the eight years since this competition was launched."
"From a fledgling
initiative conceived by my colleague Edward Boateng,
'The CNN African Journalist of the Year Competition' has grown to become
"His presence is a
testament to the journalistic excellence that these finalists have demonstrated
and an endorsement that these awards have reached a level of prestige and
recognition throughout
The 13 finalists are: Claudine Atahoun, Office de Radio diffusion et
de la Télévision du Bénin (ORTB), Bénin, Maggi Barnard, The Namibian,
The rest are Patrick Maïgua, Kenyan Television Network (KTN), Kenya, Walter Marwizi, The Standard, Zimbabwe, Betty Mkwasa,
ITV-Independent Television Ltd, Tanzania, Mpho Moagi, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), South
Africa, Ambrose Namoyo, Climax Magazine, Malawi and Siphiwe Sibeko, The Star, South
Africa.
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Parents urged
to register births
Ho (Volta Region)
Speakers said registration of
children at birth, is the foundation for the protection of their rights since
unregistered children do not have a national identity and the legal, political,
social and cultural rights, which go with it. They said such children are
unplanned and therefore, exert extra pressure on the resources available to
those children who were registered but neglected.
The MP observed that
unregistered children were presumed to have no parents because every child who
is registered is identified with parents, whom the state could readily hold
accountable for reneging in their parental responsibilities.
The MP therefore, called on government to
spare no resources in strengthening the offices of the Deaths and Births
Registry (BDR) with enough qualified personnel, logistics, information
technology and more offices, especially in rural communities to make its
services readily available to parents.
It also called for BDR facilities to be sited
at hospitals and clinics to register newly born babies. The Mock Parliament
recommended that the period for free registration of births should be extended
from 21 days after birth to one year and for sustained education through public
and private sector collaboration in both rural and urban communities to
overcome the ignorance about births registration.
The Volta Regional Minister, Kwasi Owusu-Yeboa, urged Unit
Committees, Town, Urban and Area Councils to keep local registers of births and
act as intermediaries between their areas of jurisdiction and the BDR in
capturing all births. This, he said, could help overcome the reluctance of
parents to travel to BDR far away from them to register their children.
He suggested that the period for
free registration of children should be extended from 21 days after birth to
five years. The Mock Parliament was preceded by a sketch on the importance of
birth registration in general and possession of birth certificate as vital
proof for eligibility to hold political office.
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Bechem (Brong
Ahafo)
He said such facilities would
also offer jobs for the unemployed. The Deputy Minister was addressing the Brong Ahafo Presbyterian Church
Choir Union at a Church Service to round off its 39th Anniversary Celebration
at Bechem in Brong Ahafo.
Captain Effah-Dartey
said he was not happy about how people are compelled to sleep in class rooms
and chapels when they attend church meetings and conferences due to lack of
suitable lodging facilities.
Preaching the sermon, the Brong Ahafo Regional Chairman of
the Church, Rev. Amoah-Kumah called on Ghanaians to
develop new attitudes and lifestyles for others to emulate.
The Reverend Minister attributed
the wars and numerous conflicts across the African continent to selfishness and
pleaded with all political leaders to respect the constitutions under which
they rule.
The Choiresters,
led by their President, Mensah Diawuo,
later donated fruits and other food items worth four million cedis to the
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Consequently, a number of houses
in the Opeteikoi, Ebenezer Down and Mpoasei, Glefe and Gbegbeyisei have been flooded following the Wednesday dawn
downpour.
During GNA's
rounds to monitor the effects of the downpour, it found a number of residents
wading through big pools of water in the middle of the adjoining streets to
Ebenezer Down Station at Opetekoi.
The waters were generally up to the upper parts of the thigh.
Most houses along the street
were also flooded and whole and pieces of cement blocks were arranged as steps
on which the people walked to their rooms.
Madam Alice Tetteh,
a resident in the area for 12 years, told the GNA that efforts to pull down
part of structures impeding the free flow of water last Saturday were
frustrated by some residents. She said Madam Theresa Tagoe,
the MP for the area, had brought the Ghana National Fire Service to help to
pump out the water.
Madam Tetteh
said some owners of houses in the waterways employed guards to harass anyone,
who might attempt to break any wall or move any structure in the water. They
also threatened to use juju power on them. She said the waters in the streets
and some homes took more than six months to dry up, and added that residents
were worried about the recalcitrance and threats of their fellow neighbours.
She appealed to the Government
and the AMA to step in to save the situation. On the
There were traffic jams in the
city in the late morning hours, after the dawn downpour. Also, hordes of
anxious passengers were found in a number of lorry stations waiting for
vehicles. Taxicab drivers took advantage of the situation and charged more than
the approved fares. They also drove empty cabs looking for those who wanted
"dropping".
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The statement dated 15 June said
a letter from the Office of the President confirmed the approval of Ofori-Agyiri's appointment, which took effect from
Ofori Agyiri
was until his appointment the General Manager, Legal Services and Solicitor of
the Agricultural Development Bank. The statement said he had held other
top-level management positions in
He was Deputy Registrar/Director
Legal Services, West African Examination Council. He has also worked at Maxwell
and Maxwell Law Offices in
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He said the two
"unfortunate events" of nationwide power outages were due to
technical problems and urged all workers at the Authority to be mindful of the
changes that were soon to occur and "act wisely".
Speaking to Journalists in
The reform that begins in June sets
out to separate the operations of the VRA into two entities with the aim of
solving the problems at the Authority. Under the reforms thermal operations
would be separated from the hydro with each having a Chief Executive Officer
(CEO) and Management.
For the thermal operations, the
Minister said there was currently one plant manned by VRA, a second manned by a
private owner and a third that was idle.
The immediate measure was to
combine all of the operations in a joint partnership with the aim to produce
power at a low cost and under a single management.
"We expect the new VRA to
be an aggressive power producer that will produce more energy
efficiently," Dr Ndoum said. "What we need
now is different expertise and new talent in financial skills as we already
have the engineers."
The Energy Minister said he was
in consultation with President John Agyekum Kufuor over the recommendations of a Committee he set up to
investigate allegation made against Dr Charles Wereko
Brobby, CEO of VRA. He said the Committee basically
exonerated Dr Wereko-Brobby from allegations of
mismanagement but said for now, the decision of the CEO to step aside for
investigations to be completed and other measures taken during the workers'
agitations would remain as they are.
He said the report and its
recommendations covered three main areas - collective bargaining, specific
allegations against Dr Wereko-Brobby and the Board of
the Authority and technical and financial matters in relation to the running of
VRA. Dr Ndoum said the collective bargaining aspect
was handled with the appointment of a retired labour expert whose
recommendations settled the issue.
What remained to be done was to
implement the recommendations. The second area of the report dwelt on the
specific allegations against Dr Wereko-Brobby and the
Board bordering on salaries, impropriety in the procurement of cars for
management staff, mismanagement of provident funds, impropriety
in the procurement of crude oil and changes in working hours.
The Minister said there were no
adverse findings against the Chief Executive in all these areas except that his
management style caused conflict. On the Board, the Committee said it had not
exercised sufficient control over the activities of both the CEO and the
workers. It had also not implemented the company's policies effectively.
Dr Ndoum
said the main findings of the Committee that needed attention was the third
area, which covered technical and financial matters in relation to the running
of the VRA, especially the running of the Strategic Reserve Plant. Dr Ndoum said he had written a report to the President on all
of the issues raised and expressed the hope that they would together take a
concrete decision on the issues.
This would not cover only the
recommendations but also come out with a clear policy path for the Energy
Sector towards reforms. He reiterated that the Thermal Sector had incurred a
deficit of ¢950bn, saying that there was the need to further investigates the
running of the Strategic Reserve Plant in order to come out with a decision
that was best for the company and the country.
The Minister said decisions that
would be taken in consultation with the President would not be limited
specifically to the recommendations of the Committee. The decision would broadly
be geared towards reforming the energy sector but would take cognisance of the
recommendations.
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He said the party should also
mobilise the masses through active involvement of the youth, new generation
loyal Nkrumaists and the old guards, who should serve
as inspirers. In a statement to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Sackey said the growth and strength of the party depended
largely on the contributions and active involvement of all shades of opinion at
all decision-making positions.
He called for the revitalisation
of "activist politics" that would mobilise Ghanaians to fight for
social rights and against inequality and exploitation. Sackey
urged CPP loyalists to show great sense of mutual respect, goodwill and open
faith, to the core of leaders.
"Our unity towards
electoral victory in 2004 is more important than personal and individual
interests." He urged members of the party to be truthful and unite to
ensure a resounding victory in the 2004 elections. Sackey
said the party had reached a stage where it had to win back political power and
urged constituency executives to redouble their efforts in their respective
areas to win more people into their fold.
He said those whose membership
was questionable should resign and find a political home where they truly
belonged. "These pseudo-members use this great party to achieve their aims
and now that they have what they sold their souls for, do not care about the
party or its members."
He said the CPP stood for
limited state control and ownership of enterprises especially in key areas such
as health, education and other social services.
Sackey said the CPP believed in state
involvement in strategic enterprises for the benefit of the vulnerable and
rural people. "Without state interventions over 70 per cent of Ghanaians
in the rural areas would not experience, benefit and feel the impact of private
sector growth."
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He cautioned against the growing
tendency among some persons to discredit court decisions in radio phone-in
programmes on the perceived party political leaning or affiliation of the
judge.
He noted that this attitude was
not limited to court decisions, saying today everything is viewed in terms of
political parties without regard to the real issues at stake.
"The polarity is becoming
senseless and stressful and the media must do something about it," Tetteh said at the on-going public lectures organised by
the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) in
Tetteh urged media practitioners,
and socio-political commentators to research and have an in-depth knowledge of
national issues before engaging in public discussions. The lectures are to
throw a searchlight on the institutions of the Judiciary and the judicial
process in the
He said the Judiciary had never
claimed to be above criticism. "Its actions and conduct must be subject to
the same measure of public scrutiny as any other governmental institution. "However, it must be done with circumspection to
ensure that delivery of justice is not undermined."
Examining governmental reactions
to the administration of justice in the country since independence, Tetteh said various governments had shown their
dissatisfaction with the outcome of some judgements, which they perceived as
having political undertones.
He said the Judiciary must never
be perceived as a wing of the Executive. Tetteh said,
even though, the President appoints the Chief Justice, that should not foster
such relationship as it would compel one to knock day and night at the door of
the other.
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Dr Faried
was explaining the mode of operation of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) to
members of the
The workshop was organised by
Micro-Care Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) in collaboration with
ASSI and sponsored by Alhaji Yakubu
Herbal Clinic. He said the districts, associations and groups must set their
own premiums based on their ability to pay and the ailments prevalent in their
areas as well as set out guidelines and regulations on their operations.
That is why, Dr Faried said, some aspects of the draft bill on the
''The various districts have different
financial and health peculiarities. ''The best thing to do is to allow the
districts to fix premiums based on their peculiarities and diseases prevalent
in the areas'', adding that anybody who did not belong to any insurance scheme
by the end of the year would pay cash and carry.
James Adu
Bonah of the Nkoranza HIS
said the most important aspect of a health insurance scheme was its management
and the mode of collection of monies.
He cautioned against merging the
scheme with social services such as funerals and said such a merger by any
association or group of people would lead to its collapse. Bonah
also mentioned some moral hazards associated with the scheme as the
prescription of expensive drugs and said there was the need, therefore, for
groups and associations to have first choice drugs for everybody.
Cash recovery, he said, was
another important aspect of the scheme and that it was very necessary for
associations or groups to work out premiums that would enable them to recover
cost. Bonah said fraud was the greatest danger to the
success of the scheme and advised associations and groups not to set out
guidelines and regulations that would facilitate fraud.
He said the association would,
therefore organise HIV/AIDS and other health related workshops for barbers and
hairdressers.
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About 50% of
sachet water is impure
Vakpo (Volta Region) 19 June 2003 - Kofi Agbogah, a Research Scientist at the Water Research Institute (WRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has said about 50 percent of sachet water on the market was contaminated by microbes.
Speaking at a symposium on
Freshwater at Vakpo in the Kpando
District he said the situation had arisen because most producers of the sachet
water normally submitted only the first batches of products to the WRI for
scrutiny.
He said after that they failed
to submit subsequent batches of their products for the necessary tests. Agbogah said the WRI did not have the capacity and mandate
to police water on the market and relied on the public for samples for testing
whenever they doubted its efficacy.
On the coloration of pipe-borne
water, Agbogah said that could happen because of
seepage of foreign material through broken pipelines due to age and not because
water was not well treated by the Ghana Water Company (GWC). He said the major
source of water pollution in the country was improper disposal of domestic
waste and not by industrial activities.
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Essipon (Western Region)
He said most of the Ghanaians
and other nationals, who arrived aboard GNS Bonsu on
Tuesday, could not be screened, adding "most of them mingled with
sympathizers who besieged the centre and escaped to town".
Doku who disclosed this to the Ghana
New Agency (GNA) in an interview at Essipon in the
Western Region on Tuesday said out of over 1,300 returnees, 1,066 were screened
due to the un-conducive conditions at the centre.
He said the GIS, however,
screened 705 Ghanaians, 350 Liberians, six Beninois,
two Togolese, two Burkinabes and an Ivorian. Doku said all stakeholders in the handling and management
of refugees and returnees would meet within the week and re-organise their
strategies to make future exercises fruitful.
Padmore K. Nyekopa-Arthur,
Western Regional Co-ordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation
(NADMO) said the region would soon get a new refugee centre, to safeguard the
lives and property of both refugees and Ghanaian returnees.
James Kennedy, of the
International Organisation for Migration (IOM) an UN
agency for refugees, in-charge of Operations and Logistics said his
organization is waiting at the Essipon Centre,
waiting for other ships with returnees and assist them.
The exercise was co-ordinated by the Ghana
Police, Criminal Investigations Department (CID), the Ghana Red Cross and the
Ministry of Health.
All the Ghanaians were
dispatched to their respective hometowns while other nationals, had to wait for
some days to enable NADMO and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees
(UNHCR) to provide them with transport and other items for settlement. M. K. Osman from the National Secretariat of NADMO in charge of
Relief and Rehabilitation was there to assist.
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